Re^2: importing/removing functions from a module into the main namespace

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Re^3: importing/removing functions from a module into the main namespace by Joost (Canon) on Mar 14, 2005 at 09:33 UTC
`use` and `require` normally only load a module once during execution of the script, even if they're called multiple times. Any imports done by `use` will be done for each use statement, though. If you really want to reload a module while running the program, you can do something like this (not 100% foolproof): `use Symbol qw(delete_package); sub re_use { my $module = shift; # "Module::To::Reload" my $fname = $module; $fname =~ s#::#/#g; $fname .= ".pm"; # "Module/To/Reload.pm" delete_package($module); # remove the Module::To::Reload namespace delete $INC{$fname}; # delete the filename from the # "loaded" list eval "use $module" or die $@; }` [download] "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: importing/removing functions from a module into the main namespace by agaffney (Beadle) on Mar 14, 2005 at 10:38 UTC
Actually, I just had someone point me to the Module::Reload module which seems to do exactly what I need. Thanks, though.	[reply]